Improvement in bee-hlves



PATENT EEIcE.l

JOHN O. EDWARDS, OF OATTLEVILL, MISSOURI.

YIMPROVEMENT IN BEE-HlvEs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,336, dated September 26, 1871.

To all whom it. may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN (l. EDWARDS, of Cattleville, in the county of St. Charles and State ofl Missouri, have invented. a certain new and use ful Improved Bee-Hive, of which the following is a speciiication:

My invention consists chieiiyin the manner of forming deadair chambers in the walls of the brood-chamber, the manner of constructing and supporting the doors or shutters, the manner of holding' the brood-frames in position, and the arrangement of the surplus honey-frames within a rectangular hoop.

In the drawing, Figure l is a perspective view, having one of the doors removed to show the interior. Fig. 2 is a vertical section at the line Y Y, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a vertical section at the line X X, Fig, 2. p v

A is the bottom, having a number of conical holes, a, to receive the lower ends'of the broodframes. B D are the'outer shells of the front and rear walls, respectively, C E being the inner shells of the same. Between the shells B O and those' cleats h upon the shutters. Upon the inner sides of the shutters are cleats h? h3, extending` from side to side of the hive, and against these -cleats rests a sheet, J, of metal or other material, between which and the shutter is an air-chamber, h4. I, I, Sto., are the brood-frames, held in place at the lower ends-by points z', which enter holes A in the bottom, and kept asunder at the top by screw-eyes 2 in their top bars and by contact of the ends of the top bars with the walls() E, the sides of the brood-frames also having a bearing near their lower ends against cleats e. The sheets J, of metal or other material, besides being interposed between the outer brood-frames and the walls, may be interposed between any of the brood-frames, as shown, s o as to divide the broodchamber as it maybe desired. In the space above th e brood-Chamb er are a number of surplus honeyframes, K, inclosed in a rectangular hoop, L. Between thehoop and the end frames ofthe series, and also between any two of the separate frames, if desired, are placed sheets k, of glass or other material, to close in and to divide the surplus honey-space. Y

I claim as my invention- The arrangement in a bee-hiveot the dividing- 

